he really didn t have any vices, he didn t spend any money on any hobbies of any sort. so, he was the guy who went to work and went home. but their father wasn t just a hard worker, said his sons. he was more like a workaholic. i think my mother felt neglected. he wasn t affectionate towards her. it was like all he would do was just work. i played sports like all my life and he never, ever came to watch and the sports that i played. a lot of the childhood, a lot of me growing, up i can remember a lot about my mom but i don t remember a lot about my dad. and it s not because i don t want to, it s because he just wasn t there. he would come, go to sleep, get come, go to save, get up, get back to work. that was because for magdi he said, the american dream was all about the green. if he was work, work, work money, money, money. exactly. after a rare outing to the beach monday, ryan says he and
and in dallas, six people died after a historic military during world war ii airshow on saturday. they are taking over the investigation, it means that the victims have not yet been released. now, back to dateline. to dateline. investigators looking into the savage murder of ariet girgis, naturally took a look at the other person in the house when she died. her 17 year old son, ryan. he s the only one who survived, he s practically unharmed, he was selling the small amount of drugs. we had to pursue that. police still have a lot of questions about ryan story, but they hadn t yet found any evidence to suggest he killed his mom. for, now at least, they had to take him at his word. until you could find a reason not to believe that
person, you can t have to go with what they have to say, unless they start going to you. as far as you know, ryan was not lying. as far as i knew, yes. but the investigation was just starting. and, police could not discount another possibility. that area was killed because of ryan, detectives learned that a year before the murder, ryan had confronted another kid at school who had been paid him for some weed. later, that kids friends dropped rind. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing that would spark a homicide. but i am guessing you ve seen homicides that were sparked by a lot less. it is typical for specially gang related homicides to be something just a small is that. remember, ryan described his assailant as sounding like gang members. and, then there was this bombshell. a message ride received on his aol is the messenger just weeks before the murder. about a week about a week ago you said?
because he called the first time. to me, in this type of deal, when you call the first time, you know, you get over the nervousness and they re gonna call back. and magdi the call back. the surveillance team caught him on camera. this time, from a place that doesn t get a lot of traffic in the 21st century. we know he s at a payphone. that got really interesting for me, right. their i m sitting in the car and myself on one off, i let it bring a few times and answered the phone, you know. this is the money, what s going on. you stopped by yesterday. yeah, i came by yesterday. man yeah, what is the problem, my friend? what s that? what s up? the problem is, my boy is locked up in the pen, like i told you yesterday. we want to know what s going on. you, know my boy to care for little business, you know. so we re just trying to get paid to keep the hush. you know what i mean? i thought you got paid everything. once he told me, hey, i thought i paid you guys everyt
waiting for? no, no, no. there was no point of return. somehow i knew, immediately after that that it was like there s no going back. there s no going back. and so the life you had before? it was never going to be the same. a court issued a protective order and magdi moved out of the house he worked so hard for. to an apartment complex he and his brother owned nearby. after more than two decades of marriage, it seemed magdi and ariet we re headed for divorce. there was a thought that seemed to terrify ariet. i think she was scared and had a lot of cold feet. about striking on on her own in the world? exactly. ariet it was totally dependent on magdi she had never written a personal check, didn t even know their mortgage was paid off. she would express to me, like, you know i wish all of this would just not be, here or i wish everything could go back to the way it was. magdi to seemed frightened.